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Welcome to the 116th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (3rd-9th May 2009), together with a hand-picked quintet, mostly courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

2. European Elections – London on Colin Ross’s blog.
The scores on the Euro doors: “The Conservatives will top the poll again, this time by more than 38,000 votes. Labour will stay second and the Liberal Democrats third (expect the gap between the top to reduce significantly).”
3. Prater Raines Needs Competition on Charlotte Gore’s blog. The Lib Dems’ main off-the-peg websites don’t cut the virtual mustard, says Charlotte. Tim Prater responds here.
4. More LibDem (and one Tory) expense claims on Paul Walter’s Liberal Burblings blog.
Just to prove MPs aren’t all obsessed with claiming thousands of pounds at a time – sometimes a plain ole Corby trouser press is all that’s needed to bring a smile to their bank accounts faces.

6. Taking the lead on exspenses on Darrell Goodliffe’s Moments of Clarity blog.
“The opportunity exists for Clegg to make it clear that we won’t accept expenses abuse from our own MP’s by introducing binding guidelines for Liberal Democrat MP’s.”

And now to the five blog-posts that come highly recommended regardless of the number of Aggregator click-throughs they attracted. As is now traditional we’re using the LibDig widget to select some of the posts from the seven days in question which you’ve most ‘dug’. But, remember, if you want to highlight a Lib Dem blog article published in the past seven days – your own, or someone else’s – using the steam-powered method of e-mail all you have to do is drop me a line at stephen@libdemvoice.org (providing the web-link and author, and any tagline comment you care to have published).

8. Child abuse by the authorities on David Boyle’s The Real Blog.
‘Tricky subject, a punchy post. David Boyle challenges the “emerging atmosphere of witch-hunt created by the child abuse industry” and labels it a “new tyranny”.’ (Submitted by stephenftall via LibDig).

12. How Hypocritical can you get? The Daily Mail tests previous perceptions… on Northants’ Liberal Youth blog.
“Of course, nobody would accuse the Daily Mail of hypocrisy, sympathising with Andrew Sachs after the media horribly published photos of his granddaughter in a variety of lewd poses constantly. That damn media.” (Submitted by, ahem, bumcheekcity via LibDig).

13. Twelve months is a long time in politics… on Amy Kitcher’s Liberal Light blog.
“A look back over the last twelve months in Merthyr council, by one of the newly elected Lib Dem team.” (Submitted by amy_k via LibDig).